EP0450545A1 - Appareil sans poignée pour couper et éplucher des fruits et légumes - Google Patents

Appareil sans poignée pour couper et éplucher des fruits et légumes Download PDF

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EP0450545A1
EP0450545A1 EP91105146A EP91105146A EP0450545A1 EP 0450545 A1 EP0450545 A1 EP 0450545A1 EP 91105146 A EP91105146 A EP 91105146A EP 91105146 A EP91105146 A EP 91105146A EP 0450545 A1 EP0450545 A1 EP 0450545A1
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Ching-Chyuan Deng
Thomas Yang
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J17/00—Household peeling, stringing, or paring implements or machines
    • A47J17/02—Hand devices for scraping or peeling vegetables or the like

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  • the present invention relates to a handleless cutting and paring device for fruits and vegetables having several cutters with different shapes formed at different locations for cutting or paring fruits and vegetables without damaging their edible portion while the operation thereof is simple and convenient.
  • the conventional peeler includes a peeling portion 3 and a handle 31, and is only suitable for vegetables and fruits having thinner cuticle, such as radish, cucumber, loofah, potato, apple, pear, musk melon, etc.
  • Such peeler does not suitable for scoopling out the core of apple or pear and the inner seeds of musk melon or cucumber, it does neither suitable for paring fruits and vegetables having thicker outer skin, such as orange, grapefruit, kohlrabi, turnip, etc. Therefore, a user must select different cutting means according to different fruits all vegetables; sometimes, it is possible to use several different means to complete the cutting, peeling, scooping, etc, for the same fruit or vegetable and causes so much inconvenience to the user.
  • the peeling portion 3 of the peeler as shown in Fig. 11A has a generally arcuate cross section.
  • blades 32 having a nearly flat cross sect ion as shown in Fig. 11B are normally formed. With such a blade, it is quite possible that some of the edible portion of the fruit or vegetable will be peeled off together with the outer skin.
  • the blade 32 is apt to slide deeper and deeper into the edible portion as shown in Fig. 12 and causes juice to flow out of injured fruits.
  • One of the solutions is to narrow the gap between the blade 32 and the blunt edge 33.
  • outer skin peeled off by the peeler might be stuck in this narrow gap and stop the peeling. The user must clear off the stuck peel before he or she can continue the peeling. This is one of the major drawbacks of conventional peelers.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a handleless cutting and paring device for fruits and vegetables in which a slitting/paring member consisting of a middle triangular paring means, two peeling thickness control members, and two lip-shaped blades is formed at one end.
  • a slitting/paring member consisting of a middle triangular paring means, two peeling thickness control members, and two lip-shaped blades is formed at one end.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide a handleless cutting and paring device for fruits and vegetable which has a longitudinal slot with an arcuate cross section formed at its center.
  • One side of the slot is a sharp blade and the other side is a dull edge.
  • the sharp blade is slightly lower than the dull edge so that it may be positioned more closely to a surface to be peeled than the dull edge, thereby facilitating the first cut formed on the fruit or vegetable surface. Since the arcuate profile of the sharp blade has a minimum contact area with an arcuate fruit/vegetable surface, an adequate and controlled cut depth may be obtained without hurting the pulp or edible portion. Meanwhile, a larger gap is allowed between the sharp blade and the dull edge lest the skin peeled off is stuck between there.
  • a still further object of the present invention is to provide a handleless cutting and paring device for fruits and vegetables, the circumference of which allows the user to hold it directly without hurting the hand holding it while the length of the tool is suitable for holding without the need to have another handle. In this way, both the length and the volume of the tool may be reduced while the end may used for other cutting or peeling purposes to increase the functions of the means.
  • the final object of the present invention is to provide a handleless cutting and paring device for fruits and vegetables which has a slicing portion with indented blade provided at one or two sides for partially cutting or slicing fruits or vegetable effortlessly.
  • the present invention of a handleless cutting and paring device for fruits and vegetables includes a generally oblong and plate-like body 10 with a slightly arcuate cross section, one end of the body 10 is a slitting/paring member 15 which further consists of a middle triangular paring means 151, two side paring thickness control members 152, and two lip shaped blades means 16, 17 extending upward and downward from the body 10, respectively.
  • Each of the paring thickness control members 152 is disposed in such a manner that a downward and outward slant gap 153 is formed between each member 152 and each side of the triangular paring means 151.
  • the triangular paring means 151 has a slightly concave bottom 1515 to match the arcuate body 10 while its two bottom portion form two sharp blades 1513. Due to the slant gap 153, fruit skin being peeled off may pass there freely permitting continual paring.
  • the lip-shaped blades means 16 and 17 are vertically provided at rear end of the slitting/paring member 15 and have tooth-like tips 161 and 171 of different depths formed on two sides at different heights to match the shape of the triangular cutter means 151 to cut into fruit skin of different thicknesses.
  • Such slitting/paring portion 15 is most suitable for paring fruits having thicker skin, such as oranges and grape fruits.
  • a sectorial blade means 102 is formed at the outer edge of the sectorial portion 101.
  • the sectorial blade means 102 has a profile which allows it to closely attach to fruit or vegetable surface and to be pushed forward easily.
  • An outwardly opened angle ⁇ is formed at each side of the body 10 between the body 10 and the sectorial portion 101.
  • Indented edges 101A are formed at two sides of the base of the sectorial portion 101. In operation, let one of the indented edges 101A contact fruit or vegetable surface to be cut with the angle ⁇ as a support point to control proper cut depth formed by the sectorial blade means 102.
  • the indented edge 101A may be used to easily slit a harder skin of fruits or vegetables as shown in Figs. 9A to 9C.
  • This sectorial portion 101 is most suitable for removing the outer skin of grape fruits, turnips, kohlrabis, etc., scopping out apple cores, pear cores, inner seeds of muck melons, cucumbers, etc., and clearing indented areas on the surface of sponge gourds, potatos, radishes, etc.
  • the indented edge 101A to form some generally parallel grooves on the fruit or vegetable surface as shown in Fig. 9B.
  • the sectorial blade means 103 may be directly used to achieve the purpose.
  • the body 10 of the present invention may be formed with an axially elongated slot 104 at its center and the cross section of the slot 104 is slightly concave.
  • An indented blade 104A and a dull edge 104B are separately formed at two inner sides of the slot 104 while the indented blade 104A is closer to the surface of fruit or vegetable to be peeled when comparing with the dull edge 104B (See Fig. 5). With this arrangement, it will be more easy for the blade 104A to cut in fruit or vegetable surface. Moreover, since the blade 104A is concave in its cross section, it has minimum contact area with the fruit or vegetable to be peeled.
  • the cut depth formed by the blade 104A may be controlled by the pressing force from the dull edge 104B applying to the fruit or vegetable surface in the front of the indented blade 104A. Therefore, the blade 104A will not excessively cut into the fruit or vegetable skin and hurt the pulp or edible portion. Meanwhile, the elongated slot 104 may have a properly widened width (5mm or so) to avoid any pared skin from jamming in it.
  • This enlongated slot 104 for paring is particularly suitable for fruits and vegetables having thinner skin, such as apples, pears, musk melons, cucumbers, sponge gourds, radishes, potatos, etc. This is a unique point of the invention. With respect to the peeling movement by this invention, please refer to Fig. 10.
  • the indented blade 10A may be formed on at least one side of the body 10 to facilitate the cutting or peeling.
  • Figs. 8A to 8C it can be seen that when the invention is used to paring a fruit 20, the body 10 is placed against the fruit surface to form a proper and inclined angle between them first, so that the tooth like tip 171 of the lip-shaped blade means 17 can slantwise cut into fruit skin 201 and makes a cutting path 2011 as shown in Fig. 8A. At this point, the bottom face of the paring thickness control member 152 will closely press against the surface of fruit skin 201. When the body 10 is further pushed forward, the toothlike tip 171 will forwardly slit the fruit skin tissue and forms a groove on the skin surface as a preset cutting path boundary.
  • the side blade 1513 of the middle triangular paring means 151 will immediately follow the tooth-like tip 171 and gradually slides down into the fruit skin 201 as shown in Fig. 8B.
  • a thin tip of the slit skin 2012 will then pass and extend outward through the slant gap 153 between the paring thickness control member 152 and the middle triangular paring means 151.
  • the blade 1513 keeps moving forward, the fruit skin 201 will be continually pared off along the circumference of the fruit 20, and the peeled skin 201 is confined in the slant face 1514 of the triangualr paring means 191 and the bottom face of the paring thickness control member 152 as shown in Fig. 8C while it keeps moving backward and out of the body 10.
  • a cut depth formed by the toothlike tip 171 is limited to the thickness of fruit skin being peeled off.
  • the distance D the toothlike tip 171 projected from the bottom face of the paring thickness control member 152 is a little less than the skin thickness of general citrus fruits, such as oranges, grape fruits, etc.
  • the toothlike tip 171 can only slit the harder outer skin of the fruit without hurting a sponge layer 203 between the skin 201 and the pulp 202 and causing delicious juice to leak out.
  • the user's hands can maintain clean when using the invention to peel a fruit.
  • Fig. 9A put the indented blade 10A against head of the turnip 20 (or kohlrabi) to be peeled. then use one side of the indented edges 101A of the sectorial portion 101 to slit several generally parallel grooves 201 from the head of the turnip 20 (or kohlrabi) toward the bottom of the same as shown in Fig. 9B.
  • Figs. 6A to 6C illustrating the second embodiment of the present invention.
  • the second embodiment is generally similar to the first embodiment as illustrated in Figs. 1A and 18, however, it only has a slitting/paring member 15 and a sectorial portion 101 while the central elongated peeling slot 104, the side indented blade 10A, and the indented edge 101A of the sectorial portion 101 originally existed on the first embodiment are omitted. Therefore, the second emboidment is only suitable for paring citrus fruits and scooping off apple cores, pear cores, inner seeds of musk melons, cucumbers, etc.
  • Fig. 7 illustrating the third embodiment of the invention.
  • the third embodiment is also similar to the first embodiment as illustrated in Figs. 1A and 1B, however, its body 10 is only provided with a central elongated peeling slot 104 with one side of indented blade 104A, two side indented blades 10A, and two sectroial portions 101 with indented edge 101A and sectorial blade means 102 formed on two ends of the body 10.
  • the slitting/paring member 15 originally existed in the first embodiment is omitted from the third embodiment.
  • the third embodiment is suitable for cutting and peeling fruits or vegetables having thinner skin. Therefore, it may be used as a complement of the second embodiment.

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